Saturday, March 8, 2008

Lion Love...

These two guys reared this lion from a baby in England but the authorities would not allow them to keep it once it reached maturity so they were forced to give it up. They took it back to Africa and placed it in a wildlife sanctuary, a year later they went to see it and were told it would not remember them.

I think I have read of this pairthey owned an antique shop on the kings road?Everything about that clip screams CHUTNEY FERRET to me.If it had been me that Lion would be a nice rug . I have two leopard skins and a box full of baby ocelot pelts, (true)one day they will make a nice bed cover.

Fleet, you noticed!! He will be thrilled!! I haven't heard much from him myself since he took on the campaign of releasing the DT blogs from the ZANULAB grip:-( He is doing quite well, but I worry it must be wearing him out!!

ljI realy do own those skins, my mother used to be a furrier, she got her hands on the entire unclaimed stock in slefridges fur storage facility, we had stuff from the 1890's moleskin, plus all the exotic cats from later years, most were sold on we lost a box a leopards to flooding, now all we/I have is the two adult leopards and the ocelots plus a cashmere blanket covered in rabbit.

I seem to remember the lion cub sitting in the window of their shop whilst i wandered past in a booze induced state down the Kings Road during the 60s although a large period as an art student was spent in that and smoking induced state!

Strange! but a couple of years in the 60s were spent in a haze whilst at art college which is why they threw me out in 67 because i was not doing much work and was missing for large parts of the daywe used to go up to London to visit museums etc and spend 3/4 of an hour at the museum and the rest of the time in the kings road or carnaby street etc!